Check out my new post on the ALA Learning Blog: 10 Smart Phone Apps to Help You Be a Better Trainer.  I give you ten ideas for programs that you can take anywhere with you and make your classes and trainings easier and better.  Enjoy!

The next issue of American Libraries has a cover article entitled “10 Technology Ideas Your Library Can Implement Next Week.”   Each idea is a portion of text from one of the ten books in the upcoming Neal-Schuman Tech Set series.  I am the author of the book on technology training, so be sure to check it out.  The ideas are concrete, and while some will certainly take more than a week to implement, you can get started on all of them today

Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Libraries Head Office have published an Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing with support from the National Library of Sweden and Nordbib. This useful guide details the steps necessary to launch an OA journal including sections on:

• Planning
• Set Up
• Launch
• Publishing
• Management

If that’s not enough info, you can also check out my article 6 Steps to Publishing a Scholarly Online Journal (for free!) which I have made open access.

DIY Learning has compiled a mega-list of colleges and universities which are offering free courses in Top 50 University Open Courseware Collections. These incredibly useful course offerings are divided into the following categories:

• Academic Behemoths
• Ivy League
• Western Institutions
• Colonial
• Midwestern Institutions
• United Kingdom
• International
• Purely Online
• Less Known, Equally Useful

Karen Schweitzer writes for Digitizd about 15 Must-Have Web Apps for Students. There are many interesting programs listed here and most of them are available for free.